I did an experiment with this - knowing nothing about this guy, I was like "I bet he either worked or currently still works for the oil industry." Then went to Wikipedia and the second sentence of his article is:
Before leading the U.S. Department of Energy, Wright served as the CEO of Liberty Energy, North America's second largest hydraulic fracturing company
Nailed it lol
This guy does not have the American interest in mind and heart.
America and Americans fucking suck dude. What a bunch of shitty dumbarses.
Not all americans, but all the ones at the top that can make money are absolutely abusing and exploiting the system at the cost of the earth and life itself. Green supercedes everything in America. Unbelievably sad.
Some Americans are pretty cool, though. Not everyone is a piece of shit like in the administration. Many are, but many are also pretty based.
Speaking as a European.
Wind and solar are free, hence why they're being axed by this miserable fucks. Oil and gas can be sold and their lobbyists pay shitheads like this clown big bucks.
We got other countries with surplus because they went solar and wind-- literally giving back to the community because of excess-- but since the Pedo Party can't make a buck off it, we suffer for it
"Ha ha fuck you all, hope you die. God bless America yadda yadda"
End all subsidies for coal NOW.
All these fuckers need to be closed into a room with a running engine.
The really fun thing about solar is its just about cheap enough to build yourself.
It's.... Just like looking at a car crash in slow motion.
Like renewables just keep on giving and provide so much energy security. I honestly can't see why any country, even with the vast reserves of fossil fuel that the US has, willingly ignores the future. Wild.
Edit: yer man is so uncomfortable saying this and it's not discomfort with public speaking. This is money hungry fuck territory.
Won't somebody rid me of this meddlesome Energy Secretary...
Don't stop there...
Well, I guess Americans are going to have expensive energy bills next. After groceries and heath care. Next thing is a sports drink company going to buy the rights to water? So Brawndo will replace tapwater. Because it's what plants crave, it has electrolytes.
Tell me again, Daddy, how very unlucky I, and all my kinfolk are, not to be your SHITHOLE COUNTRY'S fifty first state.
This is going to be part of their messaging for why energy prices are going up--NOT Surveillance Centers--but, renewable energies... fuck these people forever.
Why does everything that comes from this administration have to be the worst possible decision for any given situation? They're so dumb, you'd think they'd stumble into a good thing every once in a while.
Fuck these malicious assholes!
A stupid person flailing around with their decisions will end up making a number of good decisions by sheer statistical probability.
America hasn't made one good decision, not even by accident. So the only conclusion I can draw is America is incredibly malicious and has become hostile to all things good.
They do, every once in a rare while, actually make a really bold but good decision. It's always framed as "we're doing [insert good thing] to own the libs!" And them they get all surprised when we're not angry about it. And then they quietly yank the bill or get Trump or some republican governor to veto it or something so they aren't embarrassed thay they actually passed bipartisan popular legislation.
Because there's big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.
There are things the majority of Americans want and have no option to vote for. Have wanted for years.
I don't like Americans.
I do not think Americans would make good or compassionate decisions.
But the american people simply are not in control here. The entire electoral system is built to keep them away from power.
They do very occasionally blunder into something that has merits. Like, they rescheduled marijuana, and they're fast-tracking research on therapeutic psilocybin and MDMA. Those are positive things, broadly speaking. Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.
I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but part of that is probably availability bias: the vaguely positive stuff that they do is a lot less emotionally charged, and therefore less memorable, than the wildly awful stuff they also constantly do.
Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.
I’m much more cynical about this. Tipping has always been the most acceptable kind of tax fraud, that we all willingly participate in. I’m sure it’s changing as credit cards dominate, but tips paid in cash leave no record trail, no evidence that they ever existed. Why would wait staff be diligent about reporting it? At the same time, it’s small potatoes to the IRS, hardly worth trying to enforce. Why even bother?
I also dont like it in general. mainly because as an ex-server i know most dont report at least a percentage of cash tips. and i assume the worst when it comes to businesses who will keep wages lower to advertise tips that are no longer taxed (up to a certain amount).
They no longer need them, they are profitable by themselves now.
America is the dumbest fucking country.
Unfortunately, the sun and wind have no money to "donate" to our political parties, and the oil companies have many billions of dollars, so sun and wind is out on its ass.
Wind and solar take a lot of land, 100 times more land for a similiar amount of energy...
Compared to..?
He also complained about steel and concrete being expensive factors in their production. Doesn't every major construction project use a lot of steel and concrete? Including traditional power plants that run on fossil fuels?
If you replaced all the corn that’s being grown for bio-fuels with photovoltaics you could meet the energy needs of the US, technology connections has a great video
No, no, it's just false.
Wow, the billionaires seem completely convinced that U.S. citizens will go along with anything... well, hmmm... who's going to argue with them... it's true, after all, that they do...
US Energy Secretary: “I'm thrilled to report that tomorrow morning, on July 4th, we will end subsidies for wind and solar projects”
Celebrating America's independence from rational thought, America's independence from cheap energy sources, and America's independence from looking after our children and grandchildren.
I had to double check that this wasn't The Onion
The Onion has got me so regularly because Republicans are so willing to do crazy shit that's obviously a Very Bad Idea Indeed and completely bonkers, just to "own the libs" that the Onion can write batshit crazy nonsense and not sound any different from trump.
Meanwhile in China
What a cunty cunt.
What stupid fucking country lmao
Takes up more land??!! Those hydrocarbons took several millions of years. We get power today with wind and solar.
"Bleed-Up Economics*"
Not surprised. Just tired.
I am at the point where I'm all for the US managed decline at the hands of these padophiles and idiots. They deserve it.
I'm glad I didn't invest in US renewables except for one. I know that so long as MAGA is in charge of the United States, they want to see the world burn.
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